A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books! — George W. Crane Copy Share Image
“A great book is not always on the best seller list, follow your own path to discovery” — Taylor Shawcross Copy Share Image
In fiction, if people like one of your books, they tend to pick up your other books as well. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“This book is written with an open mind and it should be read with the same” — Adrian Sandvaer Copy Share Image
The essential argument in the book, 'Art as Therapy,' is that art enjoys such financial and cultural prestige that it's easy to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
There is huge money to be made - by candidates, by book publishers, by merchandise peddlers - from small-dollar conservative consumers who… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
If we want a book to do more than what it does, that's a condemnation. If we want it to do more… — Clive James Copy Share Image
My thought is, if you're a book lover, you're going to enjoy winning a book even if it's not something you'd ordinarily… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular… — A. C. Benson Copy Share Image
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Our ownership in Christ is documented in the Word of God, and our names are registered in the Lamb's Book of Life. — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
This act of piss, which can be considered sexual by some, a pleasurable experience, is at the same time total disrespect. I… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
When I had finished the book I knew that no matter what Scott did, nor how he behaved, I must know it… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Robert Glennon is a leading-edge legal scholar and passionate water advocate whose thinking is central to an intense debate on the path… — Maude Barlow Copy Share Image
One of the things about the arts that is so important is that in the arts you discover the only way to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and… — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
“Welcome to Book-a-holic Anonymous. Hi, I'm Jazz and I am addicted to the written word. I love the smell of the blackest… — Jazz Feylynn Copy Share Image
Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
I know that I want to bring sex and horror together as I have been able to in my books. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
George Bush says, 'Gore's book needs a lot of explaining.' Of course, Bush says that about every book. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms. — Lisa Whelchel Copy Share Image
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again. — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I spent six years after my first novel and five years after my second without getting into a new book. — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“the only test any book should ever have to pass is whether the reader likes it” — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“Books are so full of thoughts that some of them have learned to think.” — Henry Hitchens (Browse Copy Share Image
